Most Precious Thing in Life (1934);
If You Could Only Cook (1935)

September 10, 2012 - 7:30 pm

Billy Wilder Theater

Restored Print!

Most Precious Thing in Life (1934)

Directed by Lambert Hillyer

Pressured by her husband’s blue-blood family to grant him a divorce for the good of their son, Ellen Holmes does so, eventually winding up as a maid at the school where her grown son is a student. Here, from a discreet distance, she witnesses his passage through life, and restrains herself from intervening until she sees history repeating itself.

Columbia Pictures Corp. Producer: Robert North. Screenwriter: Ethel Hill, Dore Schary. Cinematographer: John Stumar. Editor: Richard Cahoon. Cast: Richard Cromwell, Jean Arthur, Donald Cook, Anita Louise, Mary Forbes.

35mm, b/w, 69 min.

Restored Print!

If You Could Only Cook (1935)

Directed by William A. Seiter

While relaxing on holiday, automobile mogul Jim Buchanan (Marshall) chances upon Joan Hawthorne (Arthur), who is looking for a job and wrongly assumes he is too. Following a whim, he joins her in applying as man-and-wife for a maid-and-butler position in the home of a former bootlegger. Comedy and love spring from this unlikely pairing.

Columbia Pictures Corp. Producer: Everett Riskin. Screenwriter: Howard J. Green, Gertrude Purcell. Cinematographer: John Stumar. Editor: Gene Havlick. Cast: Herbert Marshall, Jean Arthur, Leo Carillo, Lionel Stander, Alan Edwards.

35mm, b/w, 71 min.

Part of:

The Two Faces of Jean

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If You Could Only Cook (1935)

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Most Precious Thing in Life (1934);
If You Could Only Cook (1935)